Kylie Hansen

Kylie has 15-years experience across government, corporate, not for profit and social finance sectors. She co founded Impact Seed in 2015 as WA’s only social enterprise and impact investment capacity builder. Since then she has worked with stakeholders across the community, social finance and government sector to develop frameworks, programs, policy and funding to support the development of an impact investment and measurement ecosystem in WA. Prior to founding Impact Seed, she was also Founding CEO and Director of import/export startup venture Empowering Communities, which focused on international development within and into Cambodia through a B2B and B2C retail social enterprise model. Under Kylie’s leadership, Empowering Communities established supply agreements across several SE Asian countries for raw materials with several SE Asian suppliers, and developed distribution agreements into Australia, the US and Europe. Empowering Communities also reported to funders and investors internationally, including Lonely Planet, AusAID and other small European offices. Kylie holds qualifications including: Juris Doctor (post-graduate law) (UWA,2014-2018); Bachelor of Commerce (Human Resource Management/Management) (UWA); Bachelor of Arts (Political Science and International Relations) (UWA); Bachelor of Community Development (Murdoch); Graduate Certificate in Project Management (University of South Australia); Graduate Certificate in Social Impact (Centre for Social Impact, UWA,2012)